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Cut To Civilian
b-b Br Jeha W. Kelly
Washington, D. C, Dec. 23
Part of the duty of being the
minority leader if to lit at a
senate desk from noon until 5:30
and keep track of parliamentary
procedure; listen to the long
speeches and read the Congres
sional Record. This routine is
broken when the leader disap
pears for lunch In the senate
restaurant. Thumbing through
the Record, reading the verba
tim report of the proceedings.
Senator McNary came across
speech by Senator Prentis Brown
which interpreted the OPA act.
There were no comments on the'
speech by other senators. Mc
Nary read the speech and dis
covered something; it was a
memorandum written by some
one, but this memo had been
picked up by Brown from his
desk and given to the shorthand
reporter. Neither Brown nor the
reporter noticed that the memo
was Included in Brown's notes
and this foreign substance went
into the Record. McNary caught
It
The minority leader announced
that he would give 30 days In
which to delete this material
from the permanent Record,
Came an inquiry as to who was
responsible for the memo, which
Interpreted, presumably, the sen.
ate's view of OPA. According to
cloakroom gossip, the finger of
suspicion points to David Gins
berg, principal attorney for OPA.
This interpretation, as It ap
peared under the quotes of Sen
ator Brown, affected every man
woman and child in the United
States. After Jan. 3, 1943, it will
be Mr. and not Senator Brown,
as he was defeated in the Na-
vember election.
JIMMY BYRNES, price stabil
ization director, declared before
a congressional subcommittee
that OPA was authorized to in
clude government payments as
part of the celling prices be
cause Senator Brown had de
clared that this was authorized.
Byrnes issued an order directing
a ceiling on farm wages of $2400
a year (above that sum War La
bor Board takes over) and this
was approved by the president,
control over the $2,400 class of
(Continued on Pago Six)
HALT ENLISTMENT
Bay City, Mich., Dec. 23 (U.R)
Further enlistment of Michigan
doctors in the armed services
was prohibited today under a
sweeping plan to re-locate spe
cialists and general practitioners
In areas where they are most
needed.
Dr. Paul R. Urmston, Michi
gan consultant for the War Man
power Procurement and Assign
ment Service, said the state al
ready had over-subscribed its
service quotas for medical men
by 3 per cent and that no fur
ther doctors would be permitted
to enter service until quotas for
other states "draw even."
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTER
Expressman Rodolph Tetrault
being surprised by kiss when
he stood under the mistletoe in
an elevator.
The grapevine reporting that
Ed Kirtley's injured arm WAS
the result of some of Medford
high's "commando" activities,
with a young trainee demon
strating to his tutor the thor
oughness with which be had
learned his stuff.
Pastor Harry Young deliver
Ing his Church Notice and a
"Merry Christmas."
NAZIS BOMB 01
N EFFORT
TO HALTFLIGHT
Germans Becoming Disor
ganized, Discouraged
Prisoners Tell of Losses.
By M. S. Handler
United Press Staff Correspondent
Moscow, Dec. 23 0I.PJ The
Red army today broke into the
Ukraine, the rich agricultural
province that lured Adolf Hitler
into taking his Russian gamble,
and the Germans were retreat
ing in such haste that the luft-
waffe was reported to be bomb
ing its own ground troops in an
attempt to halt the rout.
The Soviet winter offensive
had been carried to a point less
than 150 miles east of Kharkov,
and the Red army was firmly
astride the important Rostov-
Moscow railroad at several
points.
Double Offensive.
Two powerful Russian armies
were on the offensive. One was
driving westward toward Khar
kov, while the other moving
southward, had penetrated to an
area about 120 miles north of
Rostov, gateway to the Caucasus,
Front dispatches from the
middle Don sector reported that
the Germans, freezing in the grip
of the Russian winter, were be
coming disorganized and dis
couraged. The newspaper Prsv-
da said the German air force was
bo;.iuli g retreating German
troops in an attempt to send
them back into battle, .
A German noncommissioned
officer captured by the Russians
reportedly said all the officers
of his company had been killed
In the last six days, that losses
in the ranks were between 60
and 70 per cent and that the Ger
man high command had threat
ened to turn artillery on his unit
if it retreated.
Prisoners Frost-Bitten
Columns of frost-bitten pris
oners are trudging eastward
from the middle Don sector. They
are wearing thin overcoats, their
heads are swathed in cloth and
their boots are wrapped in rags.
Indicative of the tempo of the
Soviet offensive was a report
that the Russians had taken
2,370 prisoners in overnight op
erations alone.
E
Marshfield, Ore., Dec. 23 U.
The city councils of Marshfield
and North Bend will meet In
Joint session January 8 to can
vass petitions seeking an elec
tion on a proposed merger of
the two Coos bay cities, it was
announced today.
. Should the petitions be found
in order, a charter must be
prepared under which the new
city would function. A special
election then would be held on
both the charter and a merger.
MILLIONAIRE HUSBAND
BEAT HER SAYS ACTRESS
Houston, Tex, Dec. 23 01.(9
Texas properties of Arthur A.
Cameron, oil millionaire, were
in receivership today after a dis
trict court hearing m which his
wife, June Knight, former stage
radio and screen star, testified:
"He beat me, half-choked me,
I kidnaped the baby and threat
ened to take him to Mexico if I
wouldn't give up my interest in
our property.
Miss Knight, who seeks $4,000
a month alimony during the
pendency of a divorce suit tiled
by her, has been unable to ob
tain service on her husband since
the suit was fUed Nov. 25.
SOLDIERS TO PLAT HOST
Sacramento, Dec 23 U.f5
Soldiers are always being enter
tained by townsfolk on holidays,
so the enlisted men at McCIellan
Field have planned a party at
the field Christmas day for 60
youngsters from an orphanage
and 12 negro children from un
derprivileged families. .
MEN I
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New York's Times Square, traditionally jammed with private can,
taxis, buses and dodging, squirming pedestrians, presented this deserted
appearsnca at noon. Dee. IS, as the recent gasoline eurfe stripped (be
streets ot most private autos.
SABOTAGE EFFORT
NIPPED SAY NAZIS
Berlin, Dee. 23 German
broadcast recorded by United
Press in New York) The Ger
man high command reported to
cUy that a British sabotage unit
which had landed on the French
coast was intercepted near Bor
deaux on Dec. 17 and "destroyed
before it was able to carry out
its assignment."
(The Germans gave no details
and there was no immediate con
firmation of the report from
London. The British detachment
could have been one of the com
mando parties which frequently
make hit-and-run attacks on the
German occupied European
coast.)
MISS CARR RESIGNS AS
HULL HOUSE DIRECTOR
Chicago Dec. 23 (U.B Miss
Charlotte Carr, one of the na
tion's leading social welfare
workers, confirmed today that
she had resigned as director of
Hull House, world s largest soc
ial settlement house.
Miss Carr refused to explain
her resignation, but said the
settlement's board of trustees un
doubtedly would Issue a state
ment later.
Defense
(Communiques and second
hand dispatches, dramatic as
thsy have bees, cava told only
part ot ths story of the de
fense of Stalingrad. Today
Henry Shapiro, United Press
Moscow manager, the .only
American correspondent .who
visited the Stalingrad front,
gives the full story as revealed
to him by the only man who
could really tell It ths com
mander In chief of the heroic .
Stalingrad garrison.
By Henry Shapiro
United Press Correspondent
Copyright 1042 by United Press
With the Red Army on the
Staiinerari Front. Dec. 22. (De
layed) (UR! Four months ago
Lieut Gen. vassllt ivanovicn
Chuikov of the Red army stood
on a hill and looked at what
appeared to be flaming vol
cano 30 miles away the burn
ing city of Stalingrad.
He had received orders to
take command and defend the
city with the life of every man
in it
The Russian troops were out
numbered, outgunned, blasted
day and night by thousands of
German planes. They were tir
ing and many were discouraged.
Commander's Story
Chuikov and his Red army
men made their stand week after
week. They stood up under an
almost unbelievable attack.
They broke it and today they
are driving the Germans before
them house by house In the city.
Chuikov told me the story in
a special interview given over
the Red Army military tele
ami miif mi
LADY STEVEDORES
PROVING WORTH
San Franisco, Dec. 23 (U.R)
The women proved beyond a
doubt today that this isn't aj
him,, niuui v:, mti vj bvujw-
ing successfully as stevedores
the one bastion of masculinity
the men thought the frail sex
would never storm.
But, just as they replaced men
as riveters and welders, they
have filtered into waterfront
jobs driving trucks, checking
and packing supplies for ships
ox the fleet at navy terminal.
They're good, too, according
to Commander Thomas Cochran,
navy supply officer. Some of
them' are better than men, Com
mander Cochran said. '
"They're better in many re
spects," Cochran said. "They
don't ask for time off to smoke
and they never report to work
with a hangover."
REJECT POWER PROPOSAL
Portland, Dec. 23. (U.R) The
Portland General Electric com
pany, which recently submitted
a contract to the state ot Ore
gon providing state institutions
at Salem with electric power at
an annual savings of some $18,
000, announced today it had re
jected the State Board of Con
trol's counter-proposal.
of Stalingrad Epoch in War's Book
graph from his headquarters In
the city to his front headquart
ers base in the Don river bend.
I tried to get inside Stalin
grad. Gen. I. N. Christlankov.
commanding here, refused to
take responsibility. He said the
fight was still raging and that
he had orders to get me back to
Moscow. . He let me appeal to
Chuikov who responded with
this story.
- Chuikov told- me how he had
taken charge at Stalingrad's
darkest hour, how his men day
by .day. and week by week
fought the Germans with every
thing from long range guns to
fists and boots, how they broke
two of the greatest single at
tacks of the war.
"The history of wars knows
no precedent for such fighting,"
he said.
He said Stalingrad not only
set a precedent . for sustained
ferocity but proved that a great
city can be defended house by
house by determined and intel
ligent men, and he described
the technique which he and his
staff worked out
Pessimists Ousted
"When the front military
council entrusted roe with the
defense of Stalingrad I fully
understood the great responsi
bility and seriousness of this
task, he said. "One could see
what the city was like 30 miles
away. German bombs had
transformed it Into one great
fire.
"There were many whining
pessimists in the army. I threw
these panicky people out ot the
British Planes Blast Jap Indies Base
AXIS SUPPLY LINE.
SUFFERS LOSS OF
AT LEASTS SHIPS
Aiiied Naval and Air Forces
Stage Ferocious Attacks
on Tunisia-Bound Vessels
London, Dee. 23 (U.R) Allied
naval- and air forces, in a aeries
of ferocious attacks on the Axis
Tunisia-Sicily supply line, have
sunk at least six and probably 10
supply vessels and warships, It
was announced today.
The news came as Allied
ground activity approached a
major scale in Tunisia and the
British Eighth army, now well
under 300 miles from the Tun
isia border, continued its drive
westward through Libya;
Subs Get Three -
British submarines torpedoed
and sank three supply ships in
the Sicily-Africa reinforcement
lane, the admiralty announced.
Two more supply ships and a
destroyer were torpedoed and
probably sank, it was said.
Middle eastern command
planes based on Malta blew up
two supply ships in the Tunis
harbor basin.
. A smalt escort Warship blew
up Sifter a direct'hlt by a Malta
based plane bomb and a medium
sized supply ship with it was
left ablaze in an attack off the
west coast of Sicily. -French
troops, advancing from
the Pond du Pahs area 30 miles
south of Tunis, were reported
less than 30 miles from the east
Tunisian coast port of Bun
Fichu, taking prisoners, armored
vehicles and guns in their path,
Fifty miles to the south, the
French had repulsed a series of
German counter-attacks in the
Kairouan area and were believed
little more than 30 miles from
the big east coast port of Sousse.
TO BREMERTON DUTY
Washington, D. C, Dec. 23.
(U.ra Capt. Charles S. Gillette,
56, manager of the Pearl Harbor
navy yard on the fateful Decem
ber 7 of last year, has been de
tached from duty with the
Bureau of Ships and will take
over management of the Puget
Sound navy yard at Bremerton
on January 20, it was an
nounced today.
army right away and set to!
work. First of all we had to
create the proper spirit of firm-;
ness. We were old we could
not retreat beyond the Volga.
We could see for ourselves there
was no road.
"Hitler put the best he had
against Stalingrad. He did not
spare quantity or quality. It
was c battle for life or death.
"We were continuously at
tacked by great masses of infan
try, tanks, artillery and planes.
Our forces were not equal. The
enemy had superiority at all
points all the time.
"The German command used
its favorite method. It Intended
to smash us with stunning
blow. They thought we hadn't
enough guts. They hoped to
push us into the Volga with one
blow. They did not carry out
a methodical offensive. This
was their method September 14.
This is what they tried again
to do October 14.
The German command made
one obvious mistake. Large
columns and groups of German
soldiers made wonderful targets
for our artillery and Infantry.
We destroyed them In great
numbers.
"I believe that nowhere in
this war have there been such
bloody hand to hand combats.
Nowhere have bayonets and
hand grenades been so widely
used as at Stalingrad.
At Deadly Crips
"The main characteristic ot
the battle ot Stalingrad is close
distance fighting, and I don't
mean the kind of tight we study
CHRISTMAS EVE
PARCEL DELIVERY
PLANNEDBY P. 0.
Medford Office Also to De
liver Packages on Xmas
Day Says P. M. DeSouza.
Faced with the task of han
dling the greatest volume of in
coming Christmas parcels in his
tory, Medford postoffice will
make parcel deliveries in the
city until midnight or later
Thursday night and all day Fri
day, Christmas day, Postmaster;
Frank DeSouza said today.
Four or five trucks will be in
operation for the delivery of par
cels to Medford residents, he
said, and requested that persons
leaving their homes Thursday
night, Christmas eve, turn on
their porchllghts to aid delivery-
men in locating street numbers.
Mail Coming Lai
DeSouza explained that the
late arrival of many parcels,
coupled with the tremendously
increased volume due to Camp
White, made it necessary for the
delivery service to operate
Christmas day. He said that 20
additional temporary employes
had been added to the postoffice
staff In an effort to handle the
parcels and get them delivered
as soon as possible. Some ot the
temporary employes will replace
soldiers who had been detailed
to work at the main office and
the annex on North Ivy street.
There will be no regular city
or rural carrier delivery Christ
mas day, the postmaster said, but
special delivery mall will be de
livered in the city. The postof
fice will be closed Christmas day,
although the mailing depart
ment will operate to speed out
going pieces.
MORE STEEL COMIHO
Washington, Dec. 23 (U.R)
War Production Board Chair
man Donald M. Nelson Sdid to
day that steel production in the
united States next year will be
nearly twice the combined out
put of the Axis nations.
JUDGE APPOINTED
Sacramento, Dec. 23. tlB
Secretary of State Paul Peek to
day was appointed by Gov. Cul-
bert h. Olson as an associate
justice of the third district court
of appeal in Sacramento.
at the military academies where
enemies meet, engage in battle:
and then separate.
"Here we hold each other In
deadly grip. The distance be
tween trenches is between 20
to 100 metres. (A metre is 1
110 yard.) The longest dist
ance is 190 metres. Army head-:
quarters are one kilometre !,
090 yards) apart and there were
moments when only 3SQ metits
separated us from the enemy.
"Naturally we had to work
out new methods. Our ability
to maneuver was extremely
limited by the narrow territory
and by enemy aviation and ar
tillery. "The Germans usually at
tacked by day, when their
planes and tanks were active
and they could have precise ar
tillery and trench mortar fire,
"We counterattacked usually
by night. Our defense was ac
tive. At the end of every 24
hours we had to count up re
sults. This was an exceedingly
difficult task. Reconnaissance
reports were always the same:
'Impossible to count corpses. i
myself several times had a
chance to see It really was Im
possible. Mounds ot corpses
piled up at the end of each day.
Mass Setf-Sacrlfice
"Our army grew firmer dally.
Yet it became obvious that we
could hold Stalingrad only by
destroying Germans. Heroism
took the form of mass self-sacrifice.
"When an enemy group 18 to
IS times larger than one of our
unit a tacked us, our soidters
nrnnp
Arm T?&,ira
Christmas may be tun to most feiks
out u sally-decorated trees pel!
iuit plain trouble to Lee Sentlgsr oi
Pittsburgh, Pa, shown In the Chil
ton's Uqspltal. Lee Is allergic U
Christmas trees.
CARGO AIRPLANES
WILL BE BUILT BY
HIGGiNS SHIPYARD
Washington, Dec" J3 W8
The war department today an
nounced award of a contract to
Andrew 3. Higgins, New Or
leans shipbuilder, for construe-:
Hon of "a large number" of car
go airplanes.
It was learned several weeks;
ago that an agreement had been
reached for Higgins to build
1,200 giant cargo aircraft, cut
today's announcement was the
first official confirmation.
The war department's state
ment did not reveal the exact
number of craft involved In the
contract It said the project
would cost "more than 5,088,-
000" a nominal figure, inas
much as $100,000 each Is re
garded as a conservative estimate
for the cost of large cargo planes.
The department gave no de
tails ot size or planned perform
ance of the planes, but said they
will be built "largely ot non-
strategic materials."
would send a signal to our bat
teries, ordering them to fire,
"They ordered the batteries to
aim at them, so thai while they
would be killed by their own
guns, they would take 10 to IS
times their number ot Germans
with them.
."Our units, after they crossed
to the west bank of the Volga,
seemed reborn. Love for their
mother country took the form
of hate for the Germans.- Our
spirit allowed us to counter
attack the enemy victoriously
with inferior forces.
"German Infantry are brave
only when they are supported
by planes, tanks and artillery,
It their infantry have to fight
our Infantry unaided, their at
tacks lnvaciably fall.
"Our Infantry are Invincible
under proper command and
with clearly define tasks, l
"We knew no rrtreet In the
battle of Stalingrad. The Ger
mans advanced only at places
where there remained no Soviet
soldiers." t
The officers I silked to say
that the defense of Stalingrad
has been a miracle of modern
war. When they ar- asked bow
this miracle was accomplished
they repeat Chuikov phrase:
"Guts and readiness to die."
The 120-day battle Is general
ly considered the fiercest and
stubbornest of this war, beyond
comparison with the battles ot
Moscow, Leningrad and Sevas
topol.
It has cost the Germans more
than 300.000 killed end robbed
them of the fruits ot their entire
summer campaign,
HEAVY ATTACK ON;
SABANG KINDLES
EXTENSIVE FIRES
Action Reveals Presence of
Powerful British KavaE
Force in Indian Ocean.
London, Dee. 23 U.F5 Planes
of a British naval force, opening
offensive operations 660 mile
northwest of Singapore, nev
made a heavy attack on the Jap
anese base at Sabang Island, off
the northwest tip of Sumatra la
the Netherlands East Indies, the
admiralty announced today.
Plane crews saw large exploc
Ions which were followed by
fires, the admiralty said.
All Planes Safe
Naval force operating from
the Bay of Bengal carried out the
attack, which the admiralty em
phasized was heavy, oa Sunday
night.
All planes returned safe.
While Gen. Douglas Hae
Arthur's men were driving the
Japanese into the sea in the
Buna area of New Guinea, the
American marine and the army
were holding Guadalcanal Island
in the southern Solomons as an
eventual offensive base and the
British and Indian army etnGen.
Sir Archibald Wavell marched
back into Burma, the Royal navy
went back into the tragic theatre
of action from which the Allies
were thrown in the early day of
the Pacific war.
It was indicated - that the
planes which made the attack
were carrier borne.
Britain revealed week sso
that it now had c powerful fleet
In the Indian ocean.
Sabang, a free port on tiny
Sabang or Pulo Wen Island, ap
parently had become major
Japanese base.
Laying 308 miles west ot Pe
nang oft the Malaya coast, jt la
in peace time the first port of
call in the Malay Archipelago
for vessels from Europe. It is at
the western entrance to the
Malacca Strait,
WINGN0TSEEK1NG
APPOINTMENT AS
REPRESENTATIVE
Charle A. Wing, valley c
chardist and former owner of the
Cloverleaf Golden Guernsey
dairy ranch, today said he was
not seeking the appointment as
Jackson county representative)
to the state legislature end si
multaneously announced he was
resigning as president of the
Oregon State Guernsey associa
tion, position he ht held for
two terms.
Wing explained that tie was
notifying County Judge Blin
Coleman and the Jackson County
Republican Central committee
that he had no . aspiration
toward the legislative office,
which will be filled by appoint
ment by the county court Frank
J. Var.Dyke ot Ashland, elected
to the position In November, Is
unable to serve because be is
In the army. ;
"I don't know whether my
name is even being considered
by the county court," Whig stat
ed, ' but even if it it and I am
offered the office i will be
forced to decline. Wing has been
mentioned in local political cir
cles as a possible appointee.
Wing said he planned to be
out of the state tor some time la
the near future and that hi
healCt had not been of the best
lately He explained that he was
resigning a president of the
state Guernsey association be
cause he had recently disposed
ot his dairy interests.
In 1943 it is estimated there
will be only five-eighth a
many tires, including recaps,
available for auto as the nor
mal demand for sew tires,